ORIGINAL: Bigg~BirddVA
ORIGINAL: bryant1
ORIGINAL: jimmy28303
I AM NOT TRYING TO START A FIGHT, JUST CURIOUS!!
I am not a dog hunter but i was wondering if someone could explain something to me. I am all for doing whatever tickles your fancy but being a still hunter, i just wanted to know where is the fun in letting the dogs do all the work. Doesnt that take all the satisfaction out of scouting, hanging stands,sitting in them during the off season and then getting in the woods and HOPING you got it right. I just dont see the fun in having the dogs drive the deer to you and then you sit there and shoot them.Seems kinda lazy to me.
Wait just a minute. I bet i put in more time training dogs(legally) than most anyone on this site does in stillhunting preperation. Don't get it confused, we are not lazy just because we wait out on the roads to shoot our deer.Dogs just don't get dumped out 1 time and are great dogs, it takes alot of practice and patience on mine and their part. I stillhunt during our bow and muzzleloader seasonsand stillhunting is far easier and more predictable than any doghunt to kill bucks. Ican kill3-4 bucks stillhunting to 1 buck doghunting every season. It is aboutthe sport and hearing the hounds run, becausewithout a great love of itmost wouldn't be taking care of dogs all year long.Doghunting ismore of a lifestyle than a 3 month hobby
You may but the average stander doesn't put in squat. A work party or two clearing lanes or roads. Effort or preparation for the shooter is not a requirement. I don't see any sport in having something chase a deer to you and then unload on it as it runs by. No dogs is standard in more states than there are ones allowed.
Also the two previous posts both say it isn't that successful. How come a arguing point for the pro-hound hunter was that dogs are needed in the eastern portion of VA? Can't be both.
They don't say it isn't that successful just that it is not as easy as many describe and to be consistently successful killing deer with dogs you better know the deer in the area.
What you see as sport and I see as sport are just differing opinions, only difference isI'm not trying to force my opinion or demonize an entire type of huntingbasedonmy limited experience with a bad crowd.
You don't like it and that's fine but you sure go out of your way to lump every dog hunter together into one group, everything you just said about "the average stander" could be swapped out with "the average still huter" and the same could be said about them, you know the guys who never shoot, take their bows/guns out the week before season, don't scout, that logic is weak at best.
I honestly feel that if many of these dog "haters" hunted with a good crowd of dog hunters they might viewthis topicdifferently, I'm not sayingtheir opinions would change but they may be able to see it from our perspective better.
Anyway I'm pretty sure we should probably just agree to disagree as we could go round and round forever and I'm all typed out on this one. Good luck this season all.